Gordon Canfield

Gordon Canfield (15 April 1898-20 June 1972) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NJ 8) from 3 January 1941 to 3 January 1961 (succeeding George N. Seger and preceding Charles S. Joelson).

Biography
Gordon Canfield was born in Salamanca, New York in 1898, and he served in the US Army during World War I. After the war, he went to Passaic, New Jersey to work as a reporter, and he worked as a lawyer and as a political aide before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1941 to 1961. He introduced legislation in 1950 to fund the creation of the US Coast Guard reserve, and he visited the Buchenwald concentration camp. He was not renominated in 1960, and he died in 1972.